Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Living Dead Girls

Come Tumbling Down by Seanan McGuire

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Come Tumbling Down is the fifth book in the Wayward Children series and features some of my favorite characters and my favorite magical world so far, The Moors. The Moors look as if they were conceived by the classic MGM horror movie makers but their rules are much more bloody and dangerous. It also sees the return of Jack and Jillian Wolcott, who returned to The Moors at the end of book one, with Jack carrying her dead sister with her through their door. If […]

Rabbit Season

Bunny by Mona Awad

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Samantha Heather Mackey is a second-year graduate student in the creative writing program at Warren University, an idyllic Northeastern campus surrounded by a grimy, dangerous, urban area. Her fiction workshop consists, for the second consecutive year, of just five students, all women. Samantha is most definitely the odd one out. The other four students have formed the ultimate clique. They seem to operate with a hive-mind, to the point where they all call each other by the same nickname: Bunny. Excessively girly and obsessed with […]

Third Time Isn’t Always A Charm

Teen Killers V03 Teen Killers At Large by Lily Sparks

The Fourth Closet: Five Nights at Freddy’s (Five Nights at Freddy’s Graphic Novel #3) by Christopher Hastings.

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I took a two week staycation recently where I was able to read about a dozen books. Some were short, but a few had a little kick to them. Such as Teen Killers At Large V03. The Teen Killers Club series Lily Sparks created a modern day Bonnie and Clyde, with kill switches implanted in the necks of people, hackers, billionaires, rough family dynamics, and a bunch of killers under the age of 18. This novel was probably the weakest of the three only because […]

A Great Second Entry to a Series

What Feasts at Night by T. Kingfisher

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I don’t understand how T. Kingfisher manages to build up so much dread in her Sworn Soldier novellas, but she’s done it again in What Feasts at Night. We rejoin Alex Easton a few months after the terrible ordeal in Ruravia, and Alex pretty clearly has some PTSD from almost being taken over by a sentient fungus. But their friend (and fellow fungus survivor) Miss Potter has asked to use their hunting lodge as a base for mushroom hunting in Gallacia, and so Alex and […]

Unfussy (and that’s a good thing)

The Boy from the Woods by Harlan Coben

Dead Lake by Darcy Coates

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After forcing my way through one of the hallmarks of 19th century European literature (voluntarily, no less) I decided I deserved something less fussy, and so I picked Coates (always a reliable plck for moderately scary yet uncomplicated) and Harlan Coben, whom I’d never read before and kept putting off because people were giving me high expectations.  Let me preface this by saying I’m typing this after spending the entire weekend abroad with my students and coherence is not my forte at the moment, so […]

a bold swing but a tough miss

Womb City by Tlotlo Tsamaase

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Tootle Tsamaase’s Womb City showed up on several lists for most anticipated 2024 science fiction, and the Afrofuturist dystopia angle of it sounded exciting and different. And clearly also a work with a feminist eye towards women’s autonomy, but providing a different angle than standard issue Western white feminism. I had really high hopes for this one; science fiction is such a potent genre for examining political questions and this looked so fresh and distinctive. The plot summary was also compelling: Nelah lives in a futuristic […]



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